The museum’s new location looks like a airplane hangar and houses many full-sized aircraft, including the Apollo 7 Command Module (on loan from the National Air and Space Museum), plus simulators, artifacts showing the history of aviation and a kids’ learning center with Jay Jay the Jet Plane and activities about flying. The Balloons and […]
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The Frontiers of Flight Museum is conveniently located just north of downtown on Lemmon Avenue at the southeast side of Dallas Love Field Airport, north of Mockingbird Lane. Housed in a modern 100,000-square-foot facility, the Museum provides a focal point to explore the history and progress of aviation, as mankind continues to pursue going higher, […]
Chef R.J. Yoakum studied at Thomas Keller’s French Laundry, and his arrival in Dallas coincided with a stylistic change to the former Knox Henderson steakhouse. Celebrity chef Curtis Stone’s name was quietly dropped, and Yoakum turned the menu on its ear. Gone are boring takes on steaks served at inflated celebrity chef prices, replaced with […]
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If you don’t want to head out to the suburbs to get your German fix, a newcomer to the Knox-Henderson neighborhood offers a taste of Bavaria. Glass Boot Biergarten is a place to drink beer, first and foremost. They have large mugs and boot-shaped glasses that they’ll fill with a small selection of German beers, […]
Dangling miniature Christmas lights and plastic fish combined with tin pails of saltine crackers on all the tables give this dim, narrow seafood eatery in the middle of the Park Cities a surprising slightly laid-back, urban seaport feel. Start out with a batch of iced, fresh oysters on the half shell. If the famous slither […]
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When Houston’s changed its name to Hillstone, reportedly to evade legislation requiring chains of a certain size to print calorie counts on their menus, fans worried their beloved restaurant would change. But everything seems to be just as it always was at this phenomenally popular upscale steak joint, and the teeming crowds apparently agree. Even […]
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This iconic Park Cities drinking den, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year, is an institution. The old-school, unpretentious atmosphere attracts folks from all walks of life, from local Highland Park day traders to a Master’s jacket-donning Scotty Scheffler to regular Joes like us who just want to belly up to the bar for a […]